Rachow, Grace. Santa Barbara resident, writer, and editor of the annual Community of Voices anthology, which include When We Were Young: Childhood (2000) [Spec PS572.S35 W447 2000], When We Were Young: Adulthood (2000) [Spec PS572.S35 W448 2000]. See also: Gulbransen, SBNP, 12/3/00, D7.

Roberts, Marguerite (1905-1989). Montecito resident and screenwriter who ran afoul of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1950s. Works include True Grit (1969). Wife of John B. Sanford. See also: Gilbar, Literary, 155.

Robinson, Alfred (1806-1895). Wrote Life in California (1846) [Spec F864.R63] in which he described his first visit to Santa Barbara in 1829. Also author of California: An Historical Poem (1889) [Spec PS2719.R45 C34] and Chinigchinich (Chi-ni’ch-nich): A Revised and Annotated Version of Alfred Robinson’s Translation of Father Geronimo Boscana’s Historical Account of the Beliefs, Usages, Customs, and Extravagancies of the Indians of This Mission of San Juan Capistrano Called the Acagchemem Tribe (1933) [Spec F869.S34 B7]. Married the daughter of Captain Jose de la Guerra; the wedding is depicted in Richard Henry Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast. Related works include The Letters of Alfred Robinson to the De La Guerra Family of Santa Barbara, 1834-1873 (Zamarano Club, 1972) [Spec F869.S45 R62]. See also: Gilbar, Literary, 14-15; Gilbar, Tales, 13.

Ruhge, Justin M. Lompoc resident and local historian. Works include: The Historic Cannons of Goleta: In Search of a Pedigree (1983) [Spec VF25.G65 R84 1983], Pueblo de Las Islas: In the Land of the Isla People, a Pictorial History of the Goleta Valley (1984) [Main and Spec F869.G6 R84 1984], Gunpowder and Canvas (1987) [Spec F864.R84 1987], The Western Front: The War Years in Santa Barbara County, 1937-1946 (1989) [Spec D769.85.C21 S36 1989], Repair and Recovery: The Story of Hoff General Army Hospital, 1940-1954; World War II Comes to Santa Barbara (1990) [Spec UH474.5.S35 H63 1990], Drake in Central California, 1579: Unraveling one of California’s Great Historical Mysteries (1990) [Spec, Wyles F869.G6 R83 1990], Looking Back: A History of Goleta’s Historic Structures and Sites and the Pioneer Families Who Made Them (1991) [Spec F869.G6 R835 1991], Defenders of the Western Front: The History of California’s Historic Presidios, Forts, Camps, Bases, and Cannon, 1579-1965 (1997) [SEL and Spec UG411.C2 R84 2005], Maritime Tragedies on the Santa Barbara Channel: A History of Shipwrecks in Fog and Storms from Point Sal to Point Mugu (2000) [Spec G525.R83 2000]. Special has a collection, mainly of his research files (SBHC Mss 27).

Rupp, Leila J. (1950- ). UCSB professor of Women’s Studies, whose works include Nazi Ideology Before 1933: A Documentation (1978) with Barbara Miller Lane [Main DD256.5.N36], Mobilizing Women for War: German and American Propaganda, 1939-1945 (1978) [Main D810.W7 R8], Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women’s Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s (1987) with Verta Taylor [Women’s Studies HQ1420.R86 1987], Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women’s Movement (1997) [Main HQ1154.R86 1997], A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America (1999) [Main HQ76.3.U5 R86 1999], and Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret (2003) [Main HQ77.2.U6 R86 2003].

Russell, Jeffrey Burton (1934- ). UCSB Professor Emeritus of History and author of several works on religion, good & evil, and the Middle Ages, including Dissent and Reform in the Early Middle Ages (1965) [Main BT1315.2.R8], Medieval Civilization (1968) [Main CB351.R8], A History of Medieval Christianity: Prophecy and Order (1968) [Main BR252 .R8 1968b], Witchcraft in the Middle Ages (1972) [Main BF1569.R88 1972], The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity (1977) [Main BL480.R86], A History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics, and Pagans (1980) [Main BF1566.R8 and Spec, ARC BF1566 .R87], Satan: The Early Christian Tradition (1981) [Main BT981.R87], Lucifer, the Devil in the Middle Ages (1984) [Main BT981.R86 1984], Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World (1986) [Main BT981.R865 1986], The Prince of Darkness: Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History (1988) [Main BT981.R867 1988], Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians (1991) [Main E112.R93 1991], Dissent and Order in the Middle Ages: The Search for Legitimate Authority (1992) [Main BT1319.R868 1992], A History of Heaven: The Singing Silence (1997) [Main BT846.2.R8713 1997].

Russell, Virginia C. Santa Barbara resident who succeeded her husband, William F. Russell, as editor of the Santa Barbara Index, in 1877.